‘Within Ajax a lot of pressure is being exerted on Ten...

Ajax coach Erik ten Hag can no longer ignore it: he will make some changes for Sunday’s home game with sc Heerenveen. Valentijn Driessen predicts this, who knows that Ten Hag’s choices are also critically examined internally.

“So far, of course, he just held on to Dusan Tadic on the left and Zakaria Labyad in the striker. In the end, he will have to switch once, because it just doesn’t work,” says the football chief. The Telegraph on the newspaper’s website. “Ten Hag will undoubtedly be able to come up with a nice story for that, but I do know that there is a lot of pressure within Ajax to change something.”

“They also see that things are not working at all at the moment. And if you see the last series, then he was a bit lucky”, continues Driessen, who is referring to the discontinuation of the Eredivisie last season. “Now you see again: they have just started, they lose to FC Groningen and you also see the way in which … He now has to deliver with a number of big matches ahead of him.”

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Driessen is not surprised by Ten Hag’s revelation that Ajax was still looking for top striker. “We have always said that Ajax was seriously interested in Luis Suárez. That turned out to be impossible because of the salary requirements. And that Eran Zahavi, who went to PSV, was also approached by Ajax to come to Amsterdam.”

“Then you will be laughed at and then that will be denied, but afterwards all that turns out to be true”, De Telegraaf reporter is right. “Zahavi himself has of course also said of: ‘When Ten Hag and I look each other in the eye, we know who is telling the truth’.”